Tokyo author Dan Bailey hailed the city for its dynamism, off-kilter creativity and sartorial extremes.

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Every time I come to China, I marvel at its dynamism, the breath-taking speed at which it is changing.

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The modern party gets much of its intellectual energy from Jewish neo-conservatives, much of its organisational dynamism from Southern Baptists, and much of its social tone from the likes of Dennis Hastert, a former high-school wrestling coach.

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Worried by opinion polls suggesting that foreigners regard Britain as backward-looking, and keen to burnish its image for dynamism, the Blair government is intent on presenting Britain as a modern, thrusting type of nation.

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And now that space has become a vast market whose strength lies in its internal diversity and dynamism.

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Silicon Valley is all about economic and social dynamism with its accompanying chaos.

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On Twitter the other day I asked the Smart Money for its explanation of stock market dynamism.

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Moreover, advocates of a much humbler military posture underestimate the rewards military dynamism brings: in Britain's relationship with America and its clout at the United Nations and elsewhere.

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The new-found dynamism of South Africa's advertising industry is robbing the business of its independence.

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It has the remnants of a special relationship with America, it punches above its weight in military matters, and it has discovered in the third way a formula for grafting the entrepreneurial dynamism of Silicon Valley on to Europe's notions of equal opportunity and social justice.

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